Editing Greyhawk (section)

===Greyhawk without Gygax (1986–1987)===
After Gygax left TSR, the continued development of Greyhawk became the work of many writers and creative minds. Rather than continuing forward with Gygax's plan for an entire planet, the setting was never expanded beyond the Flanaess, nor would other authors' work be linked to unexplored areas of the continent Oerik. According to Gygax, TSR's stewardship turned Greyhawk into something very different from what he had envisioned.<ref>Gygax: "Later TSR and [Wizards of the Coast] approaches to and treatment of the Greyhawk setting was quite contrary to the purpose for which I intended it when it was created". {{cite web | title = Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part XIII, Page 9) | publisher = EN World | date = 2007-04-25 | url = http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/193204-gary-gygax-q-part-xiii-9.html | access-date = 2009-03-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121005021114/http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/193204-gary-gygax-q-part-xiii-9.html | archive-date = 2012-10-05 | url-status = dead}}</ref>

In 1986, in the months following Gygax's ousting, TSR turned away from development of Greyhawk and focused its energies on a new campaign setting called ''[[Forgotten Realms]]''. In 1986 and 1987, only three Greyhawk modules were released, [[Scourge of the Slave Lords|A1-4 ''Scourge of the Slave Lords'']], [[Realms of Horror|S1-4 ''Realms of Horror'']] and [[Queen of the Spiders|GDQ1-7 ''Queen of the Spiders'']], all being collections of previously published modules rather than new material.

====Greyhawk novels continue without Gord the Rogue====
Gygax's novel ''Saga of Old City'', released in November 1985, and ''Artifact of Evil'', released two months after Gygax's departure from TSR, proved to be popular titles, and in 1987, TSR hired [[Rose Estes]] to continue the series, albeit without Gord the Rogue, to whom Gygax had retained all rights. From 1987 to 1989, Estes produced five more novels under the ''Greyhawk Adventures'' banner: ''Master Wolf'',<ref>{{cite book | last = Estes | first = Rose | author-link = Rose Estes | title = Master Wolf | publisher = TSR | date = April 1987 | location = Lake Geneva | isbn = 0-88038-457-3}}</ref> ''The Price of Power'',<ref>{{cite book | last = Estes | first = Rose | author-link = Rose Estes | title = The Price of Power | publisher = TSR | date = August 1987 | location = Lake Geneva | isbn = 0-88038-458-1 | url = https://archive.org/details/priceofpowergrey00rose}}</ref> ''The Demon Hand'',<ref>{{cite book | last = Estes | first = Rose | author-link = Rose Estes | title = The Demon Hand | publisher = TSR | date = March 1988 | location = Lake Geneva | isbn = 0-88038-542-1 | url = https://archive.org/details/demonhandjourney00este}}</ref> ''The Name of the Game'',<ref>{{cite book | last = Estes | first = Rose | author-link = Rose Estes | title = The Name of the Game | publisher = TSR | date = July 1988 | location = Lake Geneva | isbn = 0-88038-614-2 | url = https://archive.org/details/nameofgamejourne00este}}</ref> and ''The Eyes Have It''.<ref>{{cite book | last = Estes | first = Rose | author-link = Rose Estes | title = The Eyes Have It | publisher = TSR | date = September 1989 | location = Lake Geneva | isbn = 0-88038-755-6}}</ref> A sixth book, ''Dragon in Amber'', appeared in 1990 book catalogs, but was never written, and the series was discontinued.<ref>{{cite web | title= Greyhawk Novels | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greyhawk-Novels/lm/R1N5CG54R01CCY | publisher= Amazon Books | date=2007-03-15 | access-date=2009-05-28}}</ref>

====The dungeons of Greyhawk revealed====
In its 1986 Summer Mail Order Hobby Shop catalog, TSR had listed a new Greyhawk adventure called WG7 ''Shadowlords'', a high-level adventure to be written by Gary Gygax and [[Skip Williams]].<ref>{{cite web | title = World of Greyhawk Series (WG4 - 12) | publisher = The Acaeum | url = http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/modpages/wg.html | access-date = 2009-05-30}}</ref> This adventure was canceled after Gygax left TSR, and the catalog number WG7 was reassigned to a new adventure, ''Castle Greyhawk'', released in 1988. It was the first new Greyhawk adventure in three years, but it had nothing to do with Gygax's original Castle Greyhawk. Instead, it was a compilation of twelve humorous dungeon levels, each one written by a freelance author. The puns and jokes often referenced modern culture—[[Spider-Man|the Amazing Driderman]], [[Burger King|King Burger]], [[Bugs Bunny|Bugsbear Bunny]], and the crew of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]''—and the module also included an appearance by Gygax's Mordenkainen in a film studio.